Christopher Ian Foster

Christopher Ian Foster is a Doctoral Candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY, an Instructor at Queens College, and a Dissertation Fellow with The Committee on Globalization and Social Change, and IRADAC, CUNY 2014-2015

Ian’s publication in the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism entitled “The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Conde’s Crossing the Mangrove” came out in March, 2014. http://smallaxe.net/43 His dissertation project tracks twenty-first century African migritude Literature and its relationship to the black radical tradition. He is an organizer for the Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series at the Graduate Center.

Academic Interests

Postcolonial / Transnational / African women’s literature / Diaspora